Henry St John Stirling Woollcombe

Henry St John Stirling Woollcombe [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p12154.htm Genealogical Progency] ] (27 December 1869 – 1 December 1941) was the inaugural Bishop of Whitby from 1923 [“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X] until 1939; and also of Selby. Born into a clerical family [His nephew was later Bishop of Oxford] , he was educated at Clifton College and Keble College, Oxford before being ordained in 1895. After a curacy in Stepney he became head of the Oxford House University Settlement in nearby Bethnal Green. A brief spell as chaplain to the Archbishop of York was followed by a decade as the parish priest of Armley. Promotion to be the Sub Dean of Diocese of Coventry in 1922 was swiftly followed by elevation to the episcopate [The Times, Saturday, Aug 04, 1923; pg. 9; Issue 43411; col A "Canon Woollcombe, Sub Dean of St Michael’s Cathedral Church, Coventry to be inaugural Bishop of Whitby"] . After 16 years at Whitby he made a sideways move to become Bishop of Selby- a post he held only for 18 months [The Times, Friday, Jun 21, 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48648; col D "Ecclesiastical News The Bishop Of Selby Resigning."] . His Times obituary noted his capacity for "getting on with and getting the best out of all conditions of men [The Times, Tuesday, Dec 02, 1941; pg. 7; Issue 49098; col E "Dr H Woollcombe, late Bishop of Selby"] .

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